Donald Trump, bellicose Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice impresario, has begun a public feud with Lee Bollinger, the mop-topped president of Columbia University and first-league First Amendment scholar. Some background, per the Huffington Post: “Before Bollinger became president in 2002, Trump was in talks with the university to sell it land behind Lincoln Center for several new buildings. But when Bollinger assumed power he nixed the idea, opting to look for locales closer to the school's Morningside Heights campus.” Trump was greatly displeased by Bollinger’s abandonment of the deal, so much so that he responded to a recent story about the non-deal published in a Columbia magazine in which Trump mocked Bollinger’s “poor leadership.” Trump also called him a “dummy.” According to The Wall Street Journal’s Joy Resmovits (herself a Columbia Daily Spectator alum), “[i]f that wasn’t enough, Trump added a hand-scrawled comment at the bottom: ‘Bollinger is terrible!’”Bollinger responded to the attacks in that same Journal piece. “All I can say is that we now have far more property for far less money in an area we care about and is proximate to our existing campuses, which is critically important to great academic research and teaching,” he said. Your blogger actually attended the university in question, and will tell you that “far more property for far less money in an area we care about” is conspicuously apolitical speak for “Manhattanville,” an area of southwest Harlem populated by empty warehouses and many low-income residents who resent Columbia’s contentious manifest destiny. This is another story.